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Thursday, 19 June 2014

Icy treats

Yesterday I had quite a few comments about the sugar content of my choices of sweet treats for FNSI and having looked at it closely, I did notice there was “a bit” too much! However, in my defence, it is a once a month treat, and I’m not condoning eating the lot (although again, I say, ‘once a month’???) hee hee

So…with that in mind, I decided to have a look for a healthy alternative and for our northern folk who are experiencing a bit of summer weather, I thought this might be a nice treat….. (and it’s ‘healthy’ too!)

Equipment

Ice cream makerMedium saucepanWhisk

Directions

1. Add coconut milk and cocoa powder to medium saucepan on low heat and whisk to combine.2. Stir in the sea salt, honey (or sugar or stevia) and vanilla extract, and whisk until honey is incorporated. Remove from heat. (Note: If you are using stevia, you don’t need to heat it.)3. Whisk in the egg yolks.4. Chill this mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator. (You can skip this step if you’re not heating it.)5. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions of your ice cream maker. In 30-45 minutes you will have ice cream! (If you don’t have an ice cream maker, place in a baking pan and after a few hours, take out and mix. This breaks down the ice crystals. You may have to do this a few times)

Enjoy!

It’s too chilly here for ice cream at the moment but this one’s going in my recipe file, that’s for sure!

PS. Don’t forget to go back to my previous posts and link up for FNSI…..wheeeeeee….my favourite time of the month….can’t wait!

7 comments:

You are really making me drool now. Actually, I could eat that icecream . Alas, no icecream maker. Saved again. Hehehe. I hope you didn't take offence at my remarks about the sugar content. Each to their own. Hugs.

If you have hiatal hernia (stomach protruding through diaphragm into the chest cavity ,you may have frequent heartburn and indigestion, therefore you should limit chocolate especially in evening.BTW how big are your thyroid cysts?